Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fi-fi

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English

Syllables: fi--fi
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

3

Syllables

2

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Scandalous; immoral; applied to literature and stories.

Dated

Example Sentences

"Virtuous, orthodox, unromantic, respectable, they had not the makings of an Ibsen play or a fi-fi novel among them."

Usage

Dated

Inflected Forms

more fi-fi (comparative) most fi-fi (superlative)

Questions

What does fi-fi mean?: Scandalous; immoral; applied to literature and stories.

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